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Apply Sealant and Reassemble Joint

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What happens here

Slide the new chrome-over-brass nut onto the tailpiece, followed by the new plastic washer. Apply a generous amount of multi-purpose pipe thread sealant, such as MegaLoc, to both sides of the new plastic washer. Also, apply the sealant to the clean threads of the sink basket. Carefully push the tailpiece up, ensuring the washer is properly seated against the sink basket, and begin hand-tightening the new nut onto the sink basket threads. Once hand-tight, use pliers to tighten the nut further, ensuring a snug fit without overtightening, which could crack plastic components.

Goal: Apply a multi-purpose pipe thread sealant to the new washer and threaded components, then carefully reassemble the tailpiece, ensuring all parts are correctly aligned and tightened for a watertight seal.

Tools and materials

  • Chrome-over-Brass Nut
  • Plastic Washer
  • Pliers

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And now we should just be ready to reassemble here. That way this goes up in there. Get your other pieces on here. Okay. Just get that put right back down in here. We've got this little washer right here. I like to use a little Mega Lock on this. Okay, this is the part that seals. Mega lock is good for plastic and metal parts. You're going to go bottom side and top side with this. All right. Because it's going to seal both top and bottom well. All right. Just make sure that that is set down in there flush. But it is good there. You can slap this over into place. Bring it up. Just get this started. Get that as tight as you can go by hand. I'll grab my channel locks, my pliers, and I'm going to tighten this up. It's not going to go too much past handtight, but it's going to go a bit. I pushed this tail piece all the way down into this peach wrap joint right here. There was more than enough play to bring that up like a quarter of an inch and it's still in that socket. You don't have to worry about that. That's the one nice thing about slip joint stuff in my opinion like this is you get a little bit of play right here. Okay, this just needs to be handtight. Turn it on and

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